New Feather 32u4 Development Board Created By Adafruit

Adafruit has this week unveiled a new development board they have created called Feather which as the name suggests is a thin and lightweight board and has been designed to provide users with a portable micro controller core.

The Feather 32u4’s is equipped with an ATmega32u4 clocked at 8 MHz and at 3.3V logic, a chip setup, together with 32K of flash and 2K of RAM.

To make it easy to use for portable projects, we added a connector for any of our 3.7V Lithium polymer batteries and built in battery charging. You don’t need a battery, it will run just fine straight from the micro USB connector. But, if you do have a battery, you can take it on the go, then plug in the USB to recharge.

This chip has 32K of flash and 2K of RAM, with built in USB so not only does it have a USB-to-Serial program & debug capability built in with no need for an FTDI-like chip, it can also act like a mouse, keyboard, USB MIDI device, etc. This chip is well supported in the Arduino IDE and can run just about every sensor/library out there.